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Title: Salaam
Rating: PG- 13
Pairing: Ender/Alai
Summary: What could have happened if Alai was the only person there when Ender woke up.
Notes: because I am truly random and you never know when inspiration can strike you down, and yes it could have happened…. Because hey, Ender was totally out of it, and it was in his point of view, and he could of just forgot it *wink*…. They should make Microsoft word Ender compatible ((and Harry Potter, and Inuyasha, and FullMetal Alchemist, etc. rambles ^ ^)) appologies ahead of time... I wrote this very very late at nigt... so...erm...yea...
It was dark, but he knew someone was there.
He had heard them the moment they opened the door. He had heard them just standing there fiddling with the knob before they finally choose to close it behind them, blocking off the noise coming from behind it.
He heard them moving closer. Their footfalls becoming louder every second. They were next to his cot now.
Instinctively his had shot out and pulled down hard. The stranger grunted as their knees hit the floor sharply. So his visitor was a boy. He should have figured that much by now. The only girl he had ever met in his space rendezvous was Petra.
“ Ender, it’s me. It’s me!”
Alai. The named coursed through him a thousand times over. He hadn’t seen him since his battle room days. A face surfaced in his mind. Smiling. Joking. Mouthing the word Salaam in his head over and over again, and the kiss. Except this time it wasn’t on his cheek. Ender shivered.
“ Alai.” It sounded so familiar rolling off his tongue. Rich, distinct, perfect.
“ Salaam, pinprick. What were you doing trying to, kill me?” Alai half whispered half laughed back, as if they had been talking like old times, always about seemingly stupid things that didn’t seem as important as they did then when they were still thinking up battle room tactics and showing them to the rest of the launchies. Acting as if they were kids again. No. They were never kids. That titled was stripped from both of them once they boarded that ship off to Battle School. They weren’t kids. They knew too much to be just kids. They were different.
“ Yes. I thought you were trying to kill me.” He answered truthfully, terrified because it was the truth.
“ I was trying to not wake you up. Well, at least you still have some survival instinct left. The way Mazer talks about it you were becoming a vegetable.” Ender had never had a reason to talk to Mazer or Graff. No motivation. None whatsoever.
“ I was trying to. What’s the thumping?”
“ There’s a war going on here. Our section is blacked out to keep up safe.” They were never safe were they.
He tried to sit up, to see Alai. He hadn’t seen him in so long, it hurt not being able to. Immediately, his temple started to pound and his eyes started to get darker and blacken out, showing shades of purple and blue. He quickly shut his eyes. Willing the pain to go away.
“ Don’t sit up, Ender. It’s alright. It looks like we might win it. Not all the Warsaw Pact people went with the Polemarch. A lot of them came over when the Strategos told them you were loyal to the I.F.”
“ I was asleep.” He said bluntly as he scrunched up his eyes. His head continued to hurt.
“ So he lied. You weren’t plotting treason in you dreams, were you? Some of the Russians who came in told us that when the Polemarch ordered them to go find you and kill you, they almost killed him. Whatever they may feel about other people, Ender, they love you. The whole world watched our battles. Videos, day and night. I’ve seen some. Complete with your voice giving the orders. It’s all there, nothing censored. Good stuff. You got a career in the vids.”
“ I don’t think so,” Ender scoffed lightly.
“ I was just joking. Hey can you believe it? We won the war. We were so eager to grow up so we could fight in it, and it was us all the time. I mean we’re kids, Ender. And it was us.” Alai laughed. How could he have it all backwards. Ender never wanted to kill anyone, and he was never a kid. Not that he could remember that is. “ It was you, anyway. You were good, bosh. I didn’t know how you’d get us out of that last one. But you did. You were good.”
Ender noticed the way he spoke in the past. It was good.
“ What am I now, Alai?”
“ Still good.” Wrong.
“ At what?”
“ At - anything. There’s a million soldiers who’d follow you to the end of the universe.” Ender didn’t want to go the end of the universe. He wanted to stay right here. Locked for all he knew in this room. Here, with Alai.
“ I don’t want to go to the end of the universe.”
“ So where do you want to go? They’ll follow you.” Ender wanted to scream. He didn’t want anyone to follow him anywhere. He didn’t want to be loved by the world. He didn’t want to be looked to for world council. He wanted to be near the people he loved. The people he wanted. The people he wanted.
Ender opened his eyes. Alai was looming over him. Dark hair falling over tan face and darker eyes. He hadn’t even felt him get on the bed. He must have been tired if he hadn’t even noticed that. He breathed the other boy in. Saffron and other spices filled his senses.
Alai.
“ I don’t want them to follow me.” Ender whispered. “ I don’t care where I go. I don’t care just as long as y-“ and warm lips abruptly came in contact with his. Ender felt a hand support the back of his head while another snaked around his waist, holding them together. Making them one being. Making Alai his second half that just happened to walk and talk and breathe and be Alai that was disattached from Ender.
Alai pulled back panting and tucked back a strand of hair from Ender’s forehead.
“ Salaam.”
Ender nodded.
“ No. Salaam, Ender.” And Alai kissed him one last time.
The noises coming from beyond the door ceased, and Alai slowly removed himself from Ender.
“ Listen to that,” Alai said as he took a seat next to the cot.
The light footstep sounded outsides the door, and then it opened.
A small silhouette appeared at the entrance.
“ It’s over.” And then suddenly the lights flickered on.
“ Ho, Bean.” Ender said breathlessly.
A/n: wow sappiness… it wasn’t supposed to turn out this sappy hmm and I do believe I made up a word somewhere in there, coodoes to the person who finds it ^_____^ …eh and I know that most of it was straight from the book ((yes shock and gasp I did not write all that!!)) however 99.9% of the thoughts are mine. Hmm I do think this was supposed to turn out better… but keep in mind… first time with Ender slash, so hoped someone liked this! If anyone has any ideas plot/summary/whatever please share! Maybe after the second or third on of these I'll actually be able to get the characters down *sweatdrop* Toodles!